They don’t have much space to roam any longer, so we have to share neighborhoods with them. Some can be dangerous, and some are just a nuisance.

And some can be just downright mischievous!

A newspaper delivery man in San Francisco started getting calls from angry customers about not getting their daily paper.

He knew that he had personally delivered them to the homes, so he was a little stumped at first…what was going on?

Then one morning while out on his route, he saw something incredible that solved the mystery:

On a lawn, there was a coyote playing with a newspaper!

He just stood there watching the happy little coyote; he was having a blast tossing the paper in the air and catching it, then used it like a sled to slide down a grassy hill.

After he tired out, he would just grab the newspaper in his mouth and run around in circles with it.

The coyote was stealing newspapers right after they were delivered and using them as toys!

So, the man immediately came up with a genius game plan.

Each morning, his first delivery was to the coyote so it would have its morning paper to play with, and then his customers would also get a chance to read theirs.

And it worked like a charm!

Once the playful animal had his toy, he didn’t need to roam about searching for others, and everyone comes out happy…even the coyote.

This is a great lesson in learning to coexist, and only at the cost of a daily newspaper!

Source: Mother Nature Network

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Sometimes they emerge from the woods covered in mud and burs; other times they sport injuries from battles with wild animals.

But sometimes, our furry friends can get themselves into even pricklier situations…

When 85-year-old Gwen Maxwell noticed what she thought was a baby puppy near her home, she knew it was in considerable pain.

For one thing, the puppy appeared to be covered in something green that was causing her a huge amount of distress; she could barely move and she was crying out for help.

Gwen immediately called for assistance and when rescuers arrived on the scene, they realized that in fact, it wasn’t a puppy at all!

It was a young coyote, and it had had an unfortunate close encounter with a cholla cactus. Big clumps of it were stuck to its legs, face, and shoulders.

Gwen still couldn’t believe the poor thing was even alive:

“He’d get up and tumble around with all those chollas on him, and it was just so heartbreaking,” she said.

Even more heartbreaking was the fact that the coyote’s mother was sitting anxiously nearby. Added Gwen:

“She kept coming back and holding a vigil in my backyard.”

Thankfully, the two men who had arrived on the scene found a pair of pliers and immediately set to work removing the painful prickers from the coyote’s fur.

After some time passed, the young’un emerged and though a little bloody and bruised, he appeared to be healthy and in good spirits.

And the instant he was set on the ground, pricker-free, he sprinted toward his mother, who was overjoyed to have her child back!

Hopefully, this will be a lesson to the young coyote – avoid those cacti, as they can be far more trouble than you might think.

You won’t always be able to count on some kind strangers that’ll help you out of your prickly pickle.

Source: NTD.TV

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